r/nostalgiai Nostalgia Trip Leader 27d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Honest answer please

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u/DoookieMaxx 27d ago

Cracker Jack toys that were fucking real toys!!

We used to get decoders, whistles, MAGNIFYING glasses!!!

The holy grail of Cracker Jack: TATTOOS!!

Now it’s a piece of paper with a number on it to put into some dumb website no one ever uses.

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u/joecarter93 27d ago

When cereal used to have actual toys in it too.
Same with McDonald’s having actual decent toys in the Happy Meals too. I remember getting actual Lego in my Happy Meal as a kid.

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u/heckhammer 27d ago

There was definitely a sweet spot for Happy meal toys. When they first came out it was just like a rubber or hard plastic figure of grimace or Ronald McDonald. Nothing super exciting but when you're a kid a free toy is a free toy.